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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Digraph
Analytic
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Breve
2. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Keith Stanovich
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Three Layers of Language
Letter naming Chart
3. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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4. Closed syllable
ALTA
Quadrigraph
VC
Criterion-Referenced Test
5. Multisensory Structured Language
Chall's Stage 0
ESL
Oral Language
MSL
6. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Vowel
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Greek layer of language
7. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Vr
Auditory Learners
Grade equivalents
8. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Standardized test
Percentile/ percentile rank
Grapheme
9. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Morphology
Morpheme
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Texas Education Code 28.06
10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Prefix
Profile
Analytic
Syllable
11. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Diagnostic Teaching
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
12. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Modern English
Old English
Percentile
Three Layers of Language
13. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Joe Torgesen
Modification
VV
Chall's Stage 2
14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Standard score
Oral Language
Rate
15. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Open Syllable
Impulsivity
Percentile/ percentile rank
ALTA
16. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
GORT
Accuracy
Norm-Referenced Test
17. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Diagnostic tests
Sound Symbol Association
18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Chall's Stage 5
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Base Word
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
19. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Profile
GORT
Derived Score
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
20. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Vowel Digraph
V-e
Norm-referenced tests
Old English
21. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Vowel Digraph
[-'le
Percentile
22. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Percentile/ percentile rank
VAKT
Dyslexia
Phonology
23. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Synthetic Instruction
Old English
Auditory Processing
Chall's Stage 2
24. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Multi-Sensory Approach
Visual Processing
Chall's Stage 1
25. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Norm-Referenced Test
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 5
26. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Standardized test
The Norman Conquest
CTOPP
Syllable Instruction
27. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Combination
Consonant
Simultaneous teaching
Phonemic/ decodable words
28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Dyslexia
Criterion referenced tests
WIATII
29. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
ADHD
Social language
Greek layer of language
Adolf Kusmaul
30. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
31. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Receptive language
ALTA
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Battery
32. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Top-down Reading Approach
Affix
Age equivalent
33. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Syntax
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Orthography
ALTA
34. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Percentile
Receptive language
Three Layers of Language
Digraph
35. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Auditory Learners
Great Vowel Shift
Percentile
Fluency
36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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37. Academic Language Therapy Association
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 0
ALTA
Breve
38. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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39. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Consonant
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Rate
Phonemic Awareness
40. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Breve
Academic Achievement Tests
Open Syllable
41. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Vowel
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonological Awareness
42. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Kinesthetic
Progress Monitoring
Auditory Processing
43. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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44. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Diagnostic tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Ability
Cognitive Assessment
45. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
CTOPP
Social language
Affix
Anglo Saxon
46. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Chall's Stage 3
Expressive language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Digraph
47. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Closed Syllable
Syntax
Standardized test
Multi-Sensory Approach
48. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Diagnostic tests
James Hinshelwood
Standard score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
49. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Simultaneous teaching
Visual Learners
Accuracy
Chall's Stage 0
50. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Samuel T. Orton
Cognitive Assessment
Analytic